The Ultimate TV Guide to this years coverage of the 50th - God help us!

[David Healy]

The premiere of the Reelz telecast of "JFK: The Smoking Gun" occurred on the evening of November 3, 2013. In so many of the poorly researched television documentaries on the JFK assassination, the title is a giveaway for shoddy scholarship and research. In the two-hour Reelz program, the "smoking gun" in the title implies that the totality of the evidence will be ignored in favor of focusing on a single, sensational topic.

[FONT=&amp] This ludicrous program recycles the thesis of Bonar Menninger in his 1992 book Mortal Error. Menninger and British private investigator Colin McLaren are the two principal commentators on the program. McLaren has recently published a book with the same title of the documentary. The book is available (only as a Kindle, MP3, or audio book) at amazon at this site:[/FONT][FONT=&amp]http://www.amazon.com/JFK-The-Smoking-Co...1743179537

Menninger and McLaren use the Warren Report findings as their template, then present the unverifiable thesis was JFK was shot accidentally by the Colt AR-15 erratically wielded by SS Agent George Hickey from the follow-up car, as the agent was reacting to the gunfire in Dealey Plaza. The program argues that Oswald fired two shots, but the fatal headshot to JFK came inadvertently from Hickey as the "mortal error."

This program is painfully similar to those documentaries that rely on a computer mock up of the limousine lumbering down Elm Street. The findings of the Bethesda autopsy are taken as gospel. The authenticity of the Zapruder film is taken as gospel. Specter's single-bullet theory is taken as gospel. And, of course, it is taken as gospel that Lee Harvey Oswald is firing off shots from his Mannlicher-Carcano carbine from his sixth-floor perch. "JFK: The Smoking Gun" modifies the Warren Report, suggesting that two shots were fired by Oswald (one "nicking" JFK in the back after ricocheting off the street and the "single bullet" wounding both JFK and Connally, as formulated by Arlen Specter). The third bullet was the fatal shot fired by Hickey. Incredibly, the program never accounts for the known shot that missed the limousine occupants and wounded James Tague!

Any book, film, or documentary that does not include the findings of the ARRB, especially in the area of the medical evidence, as well as the abundant literature from serious researchers of the past decade, is doomed to failure. "JFK: The Smoking Gun" will serve only to add more confusion for viewers interested in learning the truth about the assassination of President Kennedy.


James


P.S. On the Reelz website, there is a link to vote and "share your thoughts" on the credibility of the program. As of 9:30pm on 11/3, the voting results are 72% voting "I believe" in the mortal error thesis and 27% voting "I don't believe": http://www.jfkthesmokinggun.com/[/FONT]

I looked at the poll at the bottom as well it's 73% - 26% now - so sad.

what is sad is this trash sits right next to REELZ Hollywood Pawn and Beverly Hill-billies, its going nowhere--their only real money making option here is selling DVD's after the fact. It will be neigh on impossible to get a ratings number for this trash. I bet the pope of Dealey Plaza is chuckling over his Lone Star beer tonight... lmfao!